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- From: bm665@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Robert Hauben)
- Newsgroups: alt.amateur-comp
- Subject: Re: How is the Net financed and what does it cost?
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 05:54:19 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1e7d2bINNefu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Nov3.074706.526@news.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: bm665@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Robert Hauben)
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- This is a repost.
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- In a previous article, hauben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Michael Hauben) says:
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- > Whenever I post a message to Usenet using Pnews, I see a
- >message persuading me NOT to post because of the expense that is
- >bourn by the funders of the Networks. Is this the truth? (Or is
- >this from the old days of telephone connections?) I am doing a
- >paper on the origins and development of Usenet, and my professor
- >has asked me to explore the financing of the Net.
- >
- > So, I am curious about two things:
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- > 1) How are the networks (Internet, NSFNet, Regional Net-
- >works, Usenet, UUCPnet, etc) financed? Who pays for the upkeep
- >and maintenance?
- >
- >and
- >
- > 2) What are the costs to send electronic mail messages and
- >data packets? And are there other costs?
- >
- > Thank you,
- >
- > -Michael
- > hauben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
- >
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